Media: the printing press, telegraph, radio, and Internet each expanded the reach of mobilizing resentment and acts of mass aggression.*

The Outcome of Passive or Active Aggression is Oppression

Notes

Apocalyptic Aggression
is action sparked by fear that an existential threat is near; and that time is running out to protect the deserving community; so therefore authoritarian, coercive, or violent solutions are justified.

*Xenophobia simply means fear of “strange things;” or people defined as “strange,” “outsiders” or “not like us.”
Xenophobia is the social basis of anti-immigrant movements.

*Nativism is an awkward term originally used by bigots to define the ideal society as
being composed of certain types of persons sharing an ethnicity, religion, or race.
Social science adopted the term to describe such movements.
The awful irony is that people who claim to be “nativists” often have
enslaved, expelled, or murdered the actual original indigenous “native” peoples.

*Religious Triumphalism is when a religion claims that it is the only “true” religion and only they are blessed by God.

*The idea and terminology for “Structural” forms of discrimination comes from the Social Sciences,
especially sociology and its study of family and kinship as well as larger social structures

*Media: prejudice, discrimination, and acts of passive or active aggression existed for many centuries
before the invention of the printing press. However the printing press, telegraph, radio, and Internet each expanded
the power of demagogic scapegoating to mobilize resentment among populations;
enhanced the ability to recruit people into mass social and political movements;
and facilitated acts of mass aggression and violence.
Genocide of entire targeted populations was mechanized by the ability of dispersed units
to carry out their aggressive and violent actions across great distances in a coordinated and simultaneous manner..

*Exclusion can appear:
—on a national level with bans on immigration by specific groups of people, or
—on a local social level such as country clubs and golf courses that have a formal or informal system
by which only people from a certain race, gender, or class are accepted by members.
—In the past legal covenants were common. Today, informal agreements can and do produce the same results.